Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG) 2021 Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya

   

The Undergraduate Research Symposium (HUG 2021) is the fourth consecutive research symposium organised by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, aiming to elevate the much-needed research culture among the undergraduates of the faculty. The symposium was a one-day virtual event held on the 03rd of February 2022.

The symposium invited research abstracts from BA Honours first-year, second-year, and final-year students and BA second-year and final-year students on the all the areas of study related to the Faculty.

The inauguration session of the symposium was held from 9.00 am to 10.20 am on the Zoom platform and over 270 participants joined the session. The Keynote speech was conducted by Professor Emeritus R. M. W. Rajapakse of the Department of Linguistics. Dr. Sudath Senarath, the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was also addressed the gathering. The event was well attended by staff members and the students of the faculty.

The symposium had three sessions with parallel presentation sessions. The morning session was held from 10.45 am to 12.30 pm with ten parallel sessions, and the afternoon session was held from 12.45 pm to 2.15 pm with ten parallel sessions. The evening session was held from 2.30 pm to 3.45 pm with eight parallel sessions. A total of 131 abstracts from the given subject disciplines were presented by 155 presenters throughout the twenty-eight (28) parallel sessions, which comprised of 73 research papers in Sinhala medium and 58 research papers in English medium. Moreover, 45 Session Chairs shared their insight on the abstracts with the presenters. The symposium brought together many undergraduates who are compassionate on research to exchange and share their experiences and research results through both intra and inter-disciplinary research abstracts that investigated the discipline of Humanities in a dynamic way.

 
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